djvortex
Mon Feb 21, 2005, 10:57 PM
The purpose of this thread is simple, to educate, and inform. If you are a dj reading this, than take it as something you already know and disregard or learn from it and improve upon your skills!!!!!!!!!!
Below is a small bit of info and 2 links, click the links and READ the articles!
Why you ask...well if you're a really good dj then you'll know the answer to that question.
I will give an example. At AOA the other night I went up to the dj playing in the second room around 12:30 and noticed that one of the monitors was blown...reason..he did not know what the hell he was doing. I got his attention and pointed to the level indicator lights on the mixer. The lights were pegged in the red and I explained to him that he sounded like shit because he was sending a muddy signal to the speakers. He then looked at me and returned to what he was doing, not really caring what I had told him. Fo those of you who had thought the sound was bad in that room, that is why...dj's not knowing what the hell they are doing.
For you dj's, I assume that when you play you want to sound good...right? Well to do so you need to know a little about sound and how it works when amplified. Louder is better yes, but only when it's done right. You want a clean loud sound, not a muddy distorted shit sound. This applies to dj's spinning all types of music. As well, I assume that you being a dj do not want to destroy the speakers that you are playing out of. SO please do us all a favor and read the articles I have linked here, It will make you sound better. This is not to offend anyone, and if it does, I apologize....If all you see on the mixer is red lights, then it's a safe bet that you sound like shit through the system. And above all...DO NOT TOUCH THE AMPS... they are not yours, unless you brought them, and most likely you do not know what the hell you are doing and have no business touching them in the first place.
Be a professional, dj'ing is an art, and not easy to do....so do it right, learn about audio and sound good when you play. If the sound guy has to keep telling you to back off, and you can't seem to keep a clean sound then you might as well pack it up and go home because you have no business behind the decks. A good dj always knows hoe he or she sounds in the room and how to keep it clean and loud at the same time....listen to the sound guy, he is there to help you sound better, not to keep you quiet and be a pain in the ass.
http://www.rocketroberts.com/techart/amp.htm
http://www.rocketroberts.com/audio.htm
Output level: You can adjust how loud the final signal gets going out of the mixer. A delicate balancing act often occurs here (when playing live) between the output level and the input levels. the trick is to get the loudest signal without distortion and still compensate for different record pressing levels. Headroom is life ! All faders up doesn't always work. Remember that.
LED levels: A very inconsistently useful feature. The output level indicators tell you how powerful the signal you are outputing is and how much headroom you have left before everything distorts. Sometimes you can split the 2 indicators. The left one then tells you how loud the cue is while the right tells you how loud the program output is. There is no standard layout.
Below is a small bit of info and 2 links, click the links and READ the articles!
Why you ask...well if you're a really good dj then you'll know the answer to that question.
I will give an example. At AOA the other night I went up to the dj playing in the second room around 12:30 and noticed that one of the monitors was blown...reason..he did not know what the hell he was doing. I got his attention and pointed to the level indicator lights on the mixer. The lights were pegged in the red and I explained to him that he sounded like shit because he was sending a muddy signal to the speakers. He then looked at me and returned to what he was doing, not really caring what I had told him. Fo those of you who had thought the sound was bad in that room, that is why...dj's not knowing what the hell they are doing.
For you dj's, I assume that when you play you want to sound good...right? Well to do so you need to know a little about sound and how it works when amplified. Louder is better yes, but only when it's done right. You want a clean loud sound, not a muddy distorted shit sound. This applies to dj's spinning all types of music. As well, I assume that you being a dj do not want to destroy the speakers that you are playing out of. SO please do us all a favor and read the articles I have linked here, It will make you sound better. This is not to offend anyone, and if it does, I apologize....If all you see on the mixer is red lights, then it's a safe bet that you sound like shit through the system. And above all...DO NOT TOUCH THE AMPS... they are not yours, unless you brought them, and most likely you do not know what the hell you are doing and have no business touching them in the first place.
Be a professional, dj'ing is an art, and not easy to do....so do it right, learn about audio and sound good when you play. If the sound guy has to keep telling you to back off, and you can't seem to keep a clean sound then you might as well pack it up and go home because you have no business behind the decks. A good dj always knows hoe he or she sounds in the room and how to keep it clean and loud at the same time....listen to the sound guy, he is there to help you sound better, not to keep you quiet and be a pain in the ass.
http://www.rocketroberts.com/techart/amp.htm
http://www.rocketroberts.com/audio.htm
Output level: You can adjust how loud the final signal gets going out of the mixer. A delicate balancing act often occurs here (when playing live) between the output level and the input levels. the trick is to get the loudest signal without distortion and still compensate for different record pressing levels. Headroom is life ! All faders up doesn't always work. Remember that.
LED levels: A very inconsistently useful feature. The output level indicators tell you how powerful the signal you are outputing is and how much headroom you have left before everything distorts. Sometimes you can split the 2 indicators. The left one then tells you how loud the cue is while the right tells you how loud the program output is. There is no standard layout.